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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






2. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






3. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






4. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






5. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






6. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






7. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






8. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






9. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






10. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






11. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






12. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






13. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






14. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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15. Multisensory Structured Language Education






16. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






17. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






18. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






19. Academic Language Therapy Association






20. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






21. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






22. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






23. English as a second language






24. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






25. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






27. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






28. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






29. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






31. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






33. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






34. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






35. Closed syllable






36. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






37. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






38. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






39. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






42. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






43. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






44. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






45. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






46. Open syllable






47. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






48. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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49. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






50. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"